"Always put the spiritual things first." G.K. Chesterton in "Topsy-Turvy" in Tremendous Trifles, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #3 (December 2006)

"This is no easy mission. But its difficulty is not our concern; we did not create the mission, and we cannot change it. The word 'mission' derives from the Latin root missus – which means 'sent.' We have been sent – to seek God, study the world, and serve humanity." Fr. John Jenkins re what the university should be in his inaugural address as president of Notre Dame University, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things December 2005

"There is sorrow enough in the natural way … Why do we always arrange for more?" Rudyard Kipling, quoted by Linus in Peanuts in The Ottawa Citizen October 27, 2001

"If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it." William A. Orton

"Who are you that you should not believe in fairy tales?" G.K. Chesterton, quoted by John Peterson story in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 12 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2009)

"When you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." – LORD KELVIN/ "Yes, and when you can express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." – JACOB VINER Exchange quoted in Robert Higgs Crisis and Leviathan

"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the Devil can throw at a man." William Hazlitt

"Nothing succeeds so well as success." Tallyrand